Kick-off session Boook club
Happy Git and Hithub for the useR

Boook club R-Ladies Bergen, R-Ladies Den Bosch, R-Ladies Amsterdam

Program for today

  • Intro R-Ladies
  • Intro book club
  • Intro speaker: Jenny Bryan
  • Talk with Jenny
  • If time left: Presentation of Chapter 2 (Installation) & Chapter 3(Connect Git, GitHub, RStudio)

R-Ladies Chapters

  • 225 chapters
  • 65 countries
  • This will be at least the 3945th event

Some house rules

  • R-Ladies is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone
  • We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form
  • See the code of conduct

Welcome to the boook club!

What to expect from this boook club

  • Presentation of a “big” book chapter: Summary, demonstration
  • Open discussion for questions and thoughts
  • Optional pre-reading of chapters
    • Could be a good idea though!
  • Shared doc for notes and questions
  • Arrangements organized and shared via Meetup - BECOME A MEMBER OF YOUR CHAPTER!

Are YOU the next presenter?

Jenny Bryan

  • Ph.D. and M.A. in Biostatistics
  • RStudio
  • Adjunct Professor University British Columbia
  • Member R Foundation
  • Leadership Committee rOpenSci
  • Scientific Advisory Board BioConductor

And now the floor is for Jenny!

Documentation shared by Jenny

  • Workshop repo What They Forgot to Teach You About R”
    • workshop from posit conf 2022, which included about a half day on Git/GitHub
    • look in the “materials” folder for slides, there are 2 PDFs about Git and GitHub